Chatterjee

Chatterjee
Origin
Word/name	Bengali Hindu
Region of origin	Bengal

Chatterjee (Bengali: চ্যাটার্জি), also known as Chattopadhyay, is a Bengali Hindu surname, used by the Kulin group of the Bengali Brahmin caste. Together with Banerjees, Mukherjees, Bhattacharjees, and Gangulys, Chatterjees form the Kulin Brahmins, the highest tier of the Bengali caste system. They belong to Rarhi clan of Bengali Brahmins and the Kashyapa gotra.

Variation

Chatterjee is an Anglicized variant of the Sanskritized Chattopadhyay. English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya.

Notable Chatterjees

Abhishek Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actor
Abir Chatterjee – actor
Adhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
Aditi Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actress
Alok Chatterjee – theatre actor and director
Amarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighter
Amitabha Chattopadhyay – biophysicist
Amitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
Angana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
Anil Chatterjee – actor
Anindo Chatterjee – tabla player
Anjan Chatterjee (neuroscientist) – cognitive neuroscientist
Aroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activist
Asima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
Atul Chandra Chatterjee – Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925 to 1931.
Bamacharan Chattopadhyay – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord Shiva
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee – Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India
Basu Chatterjee – film director
Bhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actor
Biswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
Debabarta Chatterjee – botanist
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – author, philosopher
Debjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poet
Deen K. Chatterjee - philosopher
Dhritiman Chatterjee – actor
Dhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
Dipankar Chatterji – molecular biologist
Gadadhar Chattopadhyay – Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, devotee of Dakshina Kali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
Gautam Chattopadhyay – musician
Harindranath Chattopadhyay – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini Naidu
Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian mathematician
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
Joya Chatterji – Professor of South Asian history
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay – social reformer
Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar
Mirai Chatterjee – Indian social worker
Mohini Mohun Chatterji – theosophist, scholar
Moushumi Chatterjee – Bollywood actress
Neil Chatterjee – American lawyer, political advisor, and government official, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission twice between 2017 and 2020
Nigamananda – Yogi
Parambrata Chatterjee – actor
Partha Chatterjee – scholar and author
Piya Chattopadhyay – Canadian broadcaster
Pratap Chatterjee – journalist and author
Priyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016
Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
Prosenjit Chatterjee – actor
Pulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCG
Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, Indian politician
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century India
Ramananda Chatterjee — founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review, he has been described as the father of Indian journalism
Rangan Chatterjee – Physician, author, television presenter and broadcaster
Sabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actress
Sankar Chatterjee – paleontologist
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian writer
Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
Saswata Chatterjee – actor
Shakti Chattopadhyay – poet
Shekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneur
Shiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
Sitaramdas Omkarnath – Bhakti saint
Somnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
Soumitra Chatterjee – actor
Sourav Chatterjee – mathematician
Sovan Chatterjee – former mayor of the city of Kolkata
Srabanti Chatterjee – actress
Subhendu Chatterjee – actor
Subhadeep Chatterjee – Indian molecular biologist
Sudeep Chatterjee – cinematographer
Sudip Chattopadhyay – biologist
Suman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musician
Suniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
Swapan Chattopadhyay – director of the Cockcroft Institute
Tannishtha Chatterjee – actress
Upamanyu Chatterjee – author
Utpal Chatterjee – cricketer
Uttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
Vikram Chatterjee – Indian actor of Bengali cinema
Virendranath Chattopadhyaya – activist

References

1 2 Hanks, Patrick (2003). "Chatterjee". Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 320. ISBN 9780195081374.
↑ Bromley, David G.; Larry D. Shinn, eds. (1989). Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press. ISBN 0-8387-5144-X. OCLC 17984402.
↑ Rodrigues, Hillary (2003). Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations. SUNY Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780791488447.
↑ Joshi, Priya (2002). In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. Columbia University Press. pp. 283. ISBN 9780231500906.
↑ International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2013). "Bengali". Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21. ISBN 9783110974553.
↑ Chatterji, Bankim Chandra; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra (2005). "Introduction". Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood. Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780195178579.
↑ Chakraborty, Paulomi (2018). The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780199095391.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Hanks, Patrick (2003). "Chatterjee". Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 320. ISBN 9780195081374.

[2] Bromley, David G.; Larry D. Shinn, eds. (1989). Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press. ISBN 0-8387-5144-X. OCLC 17984402.

[:1-3] Rodrigues, Hillary (2003). Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations. SUNY Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780791488447.

[:2-4] Joshi, Priya (2002). In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. Columbia University Press. pp. 283. ISBN 9780231500906.

[5] International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2013). "Bengali". Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21. ISBN 9783110974553.

[6] Chatterji, Bankim Chandra; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra (2005). "Introduction". Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood. Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780195178579.

[7] Chakraborty, Paulomi (2018). The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780199095391.

Chatterjee

Variation

Notable Chatterjees

See also

References